Queenship and the Women of Westeros

Zita Eva Rohr is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Yolande of Aragon (1381–1442) Family and Power: The Reverse of the Tapestry (Palgrave, 2016).Lisa Benz is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012) and the co-editor with Zita Eva Rohr of Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060–1600 (Palgrave, 2016).

• I. Queenship.- 1. A Game of Thrones in China: The Case of Cixi, Empress-Dowager of China (1835–1908).- 2. Queen of Sad Mischance: Medievalism, “Realism,” and the Case of Cersei Lannister.- 3. Westerosi Queens: Medievalist Portrayal of Female Power and Authority in A Song of Ice and Fire.- II. Female Agency.- 4. “All I ever wanted was to fight for a lord I believed in. But the good lords are dead and the rest are monsters.” Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister, and the Chivalric “Other”.- 5. The Peaceweavers of Winterfell.- 6. Cersei Lannister, Regal Commissions, and the Alchemists in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.- 7. “All men must die, but we are not men”: Eastern Faith and Feminine Power in A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones.- III. The Role of Advice.- 8. Daenerys the Unready: Advice and Ruling in Meereen.- 9. The Royal Minorities of Game of Thrones.- 10. Wicked Womenand the Iron Throne: The Two-Fold Tragedy of Witches as Advisors in Game of Thrones.- 11. Afterword: Playing, Winning and Losing the Game of Thrones: Reflections on Female Succession in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones in Comparison to the Premodern Era.